Bottles

Aluminum packaging is coming for your water as Coca-Cola’s Dasani brand takes the plunge

Coca-Cola’s Dasani brand is the latest company pitching bottled water to go the aluminum can route. It’s part of a broader rejiggering of the water brand’s plans to use mostly recycl

MIT’s human-mirroring robot nails the Bottle Cap Challenge

MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has a robot that can mirror the actions of a human just by watching their bicep. This has a number of practical applications, inclu

How Clifford Stoll Sells Klein Bottles From Under His House

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU] Clifford Stoll wrote one of my favorite books, The Cuckoo’s Egg, and then went a little goofy about the future of the Internet. But that&#82

Sleevely Tells You How Much Milk Your Wee Bairn Slurped All Day

Babies, sweet bairns or waukrife rogues alike drink from bottles. But how is a poor parent to know how much the wee ones drank, how fresh the formula was, and how much more they should imbibe before g

Electronic cap keeps winemakers honest

Researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory’s Vulnerability Assessment Team (VAT) at the Department of Energy have created a special cap for wine bottles that “breaks” when it is

My Pee Pee Bottle: $10 well spent

Do you have a kid? Does that kid pee? Pick up the My Pee Pee bottle from some insane people who feel that toilets are unsafe. February 2007, our then two-year old daughter, Sofia, contracted Rotavirus

Wow: Bottles, an RC car, and the Super Mario theme

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed4CHkN-Dkw&hl=en] If you’re reading this from the office and you can’t view YouTube videos, you should consider going home on your lunch break

Piper-Heidsieck limited-edition upside-down Champagne

Sure it’ll set you back $125 but look at that bottle. Yes, folks, that’s a full bottle of old Champy in an upside-down bottle with a giant cork, designed by Viktor and Rolf. It’s act

Simply Cool: Best sports bottle ever

We talk about high-speed data connections, HD video, computers, and Transformers, but sometimes our favorite gadgets are just tweaks to things we’ve been using for hundreds of years. Behold the